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The Necessity of Suffering

. . . vanity of vanities!  All is vanity. (Eccl 1:2) It was good for me to be afflicted, that I might learn your statutes. (Ps 119:71) The past few weeks I helped care for my mom as she died from cancer.  I briefly discussed in the last blog how this experience has affected my thoughts on death.  It has also made me think on suffering as I watch my mom suffer. Let me take some time and share some thoughts on suffering. Consider these two questions:  Why did God allow Stalin to take the lives of 20 million Russians? …

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You, Me, and Death

The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning, but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth. (Eccl 7:4) It is the same for all, since the same event happens to the righteous and the wicked, to the good and the evil, to the clean and the unclean, to him who sacrifices and him who does not sacrifice.  As the good one is, so is the sinner, and he who swears is as he who shuns an oath.  (Eccl 9:2) Lord, help me to see more of my own weakness now, that I may trust…

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The Scandal of Love

Love came down and walked on earth. Have you seen him? Love was wrapped in a virgin birth. Have you known him? ———————————- Broken.  Dying.  Stealing.  Lying. Corrupt and needy.  Weak and greedy. Love came here. ———————————– In weakness he was clothed. Unheard of! And took weakness as his betrothed. Scandalous! ———————————– Have you heard this scandal of love? ———————————— To a bleeding, fallen world he was sent to bleed for paupers and prisoners. His life was spent to rescue the sinful, selfish soul. ———————————— Have you heard the scandal of love? ———————————— The king who spoke and galaxies formed…

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Abiding and the Voice of God

And now, little children, abide in Him (I Jn 2:28).  Abiding in Jesus is life itself.  It is the greatest joy, the strongest peace, the deepest desire you can have.  When you abide with Jesus, He satisfies your soul. It is good to hear God’s voice on an issue, but it is better to abide with Jesus.  God speaks more to those who abide with Him.  When we make hearing God our greatest focus, we limit our ability to hear because we go only halfway.  God wants us not merely to hear from Him but to abide with Him. Abiding…

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God’s Voice and Your Heart

I was recently helping a refugee student with high school algebra and found quickly that his problems with algebra were not with algebra.  He did not know basic math.  He could not add or subtract fractions or negative numbers.  He did not know what decimals represented.  He struggled with the basic multiplication table and did not know how to do division.  But somehow, after he came to America, the school placed him in Algebra, and he had homework asking him to graph parabolic functions.  I couldn’t help him much with the homework because he couldn’t graph even a single point…

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